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A quick Radiodan: Exclusively Archers

I made one of these a few months ago – they’re super simple – but Chris Lynas asked me about it, so I thought I should write it up quickly.

It’s an internet radio that turns itself on for the Archers then turns itself off again afterwards. It’s not very smart: it just uses a crontab and the default Radiodan application’s REST API. It would be more interesting to do it based on real-time metadata. I’ll have a look at that at some point, but this does the job, as the Archers doesn’t move round much at all.

You’ll need: A Raspberry Pi, a speaker with a 3.5mm jack, a USB wifi card (ideally RT5370 chipset), an 8GB micro SD card, a power supply for the PI. And a nice box to put it in.